Emma Thompson Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Emma Thompson filmography covers 65 movie titles and 9 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Emma Thompson movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Henry V (1989) as Katherine
• The Tall Guy (1989) as Kate
• Dead Again (1991) as Margaret Strauss / Grace
• Impromptu (1991) as Duchess D'Antan
• Howards End (1992) as Margaret Schlegel
• Peter's Friends (1992) as Maggie Chester
• In the Name of the Father (1993) as Gareth Peirce
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993) as Beatrice
• The Remains of the Day (1993) as Miss Kenton
• Junior (1994) as Dr. Diana Reddin
• My Father the Hero (1994) as Isabel (uncredited)
• Carrington (1995) as Dora Carrington
• Sense and Sensibility (1995) as Elinor Dashwood
• The Winter Guest (1997) as Frances
• Judas Kiss (1998) as FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
• Primary Colors (1998) as Susan Stanton
• Maybe Baby (2000) as Druscilla
• Wit (2001) as Vivian Bearing
• Treasure Planet (2002) as Captain Amelia (voice)
• Imagining Argentina (2003) as Cecilia Rueda
• Love Actually (2003) as Karen
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Sybill Trelawney
• Nanny McPhee (2005) as Nanny McPhee
• Stranger Than Fiction (2006) as Karen Eiffel
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) as Sybill Trelawney
• I Am Legend (2007) as Dr. Alice Krippin
• Brideshead Revisited (2008) as Lady Marchmain
• Last Chance Harvey (2008) as Kate Walker
• An Education (2009) as Headmistress
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) as Charlotte
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010) as Nanny McPhee
• The Song of Lunch (2010) as She
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) as Sybill Trelawney
• Brave (2012) as Elinor (voice)
• Men in Black 3 (2012) as Agent O
• Beautiful Creatures (2013) as Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013) as P.L. Travers
• Effie Gray (2014) as Lady Eastlake
• Men, Women & Children (2014) as Narrator (voice)
• The Love Punch (2014) as Kate
• A Walk in the Woods (2015) as Catherine Bryson
• Burnt (2015) as Dr. Rosshilde
• The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) as Cemolina
• Alone in Berlin (2016) as Anna Quangel
• Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) as Dr Rawlings
• Beauty and the Beast (2017) as Mrs. Potts
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) as Maureen Meyerowitz
• Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) as Prime Minister
• King Lear (2018) as Goneril
• The Children Act (2018) as Fiona Maye
• Last Christmas (2019) as Petra Andrich
• Late Night (2019) as Katherine Newbury
• Men in Black: International (2019) as Agent O
• Missing Link (2019) as Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
• Dolittle (2020) as Poly (voice)
• How to Build a Girl (2020) as Amanda
• An Audience with Adele (2021) as Self
• Cruella (2021) as The Baroness
• Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021) as Self (archive footage)
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) as Nancy Stokes
• Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022) as Agatha Trunchbull
• What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023) as Cath Stevenson
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) as Dr Rawlings
• Dead of Winter (2025) as Barb
• The Sheep Detectives (2026) as Lydia Harbottle

Emma Thompson television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Emma Thompson; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Angels in America as Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel
• Cheers as Nanny Gee
• Down Cemetery Road as Zoë Boehm
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Ellen as Emma Thompson
• The Oscars as Self
• The Young Ones as Miss Money-Sterling
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans? as Lady Marcham
• Years and Years as Vivienne Rook

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Emma Thompson's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.